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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him loooooolllll
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him l m f a o
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Feb 28, 2015 21:18
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him 
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Feb 28, 2015 21:22
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:what are the odds that those google bubbles will have some tragic flaw only discovered upon completion? (lol they'll never get built) even if they are built, their tragic flaw is obvious in their design. the domes have a bunch of independent floor-modules you can move around with cranes. in what situation would it ever make more sense to rearrange modules than to just move people? okay, group A needs to work more with group B and we want to move them closer together. (directors think this is super-important because they spend all their time in meetings and don't like having to move between buildings for them. in reality groups at google are constantly working with groups in different states/countries, because even putting aside acquisitions, google will open a branch office in any city with a CS program better than itt tech. and also in nyc) if the groups happen to already be in the same dome then we now have the option of physically moving their modules. to do that, we have to shut down work in every module that has to move, including group A's module, the module currently in the position that group A is going, the module in the position that's going, every module that's on or too close to a movement path, etc. now maybe some of these modules will just be moving up and down on a column/rib/whatever by some motorized action; they'll probably still require those to be empty during movement for safety's sake, but otherwise they won't be too disrupted. everything in every module that's getting moved by crane will need to be packed, stowed, or strapped down, more or less as if the group was moving normally, and of course the module will lose power so i hope you're not using any machines there for anything. the actual crane movement will probably take most of a day per module at least, depending on how densely packed the modules are, and will require shutting down everything on the ground beneath the movement so, even assuming that each group actually has its own independent module, you could either massively disrupt work life for most of the dome during an operation that might take a week or more, at a cost of millions per move before accounting for lost productivity during the disruption, or you could just have some dudes with hand trucks move some boxes around for a couple thousand bucks the actual point of this proposal is to wow the city council with science and architecture so that they allow an exception to the height limits
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Feb 28, 2015 21:40
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:if android had limited its aspirations to being a blackberry clone, maybe it would have actually worked i like how they still after these years are boggled by how to get the secret sauce right like on the iphone. MAYBE IF WE HAD MORE CORES?
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Feb 28, 2015 21:48
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rjmccall posted:even if they are built, their tragic flaw is obvious in their design. the domes have a bunch of independent floor-modules you can move around with cranes. in what situation would it ever make more sense to rearrange modules than to just move people? in the video they throw out that they could be used for farming lmao i mean online advertising is bad and getting worse but i don't think farming will evr get that lucrative google is so NIH that they could never just farm regular, they'd have to invent some new way to farm that has a tiny fraction of the yield but has more dependence on heavy metals and electricity and google is so ADD that they'd get seeds in the groun d and then be like "gently caress it, we give up" during the part where the plants actually grow and you don't have to do anything
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Feb 28, 2015 21:59
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don't you think Google already has city council 100% captured though
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Feb 28, 2015 21:59
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if the city council was 100% captured, they'd already be building in-town employee housing
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Feb 28, 2015 22:07
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not yet. they would completely own it if all the local googlers gave a poo poo (and could vote), but as it is, the council seems to be split between gung-ho techlords and the more skeptical old guard (of stanford professors and nasa engineers) who are resigned to tech but would prefer if not all the tech were google
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Feb 28, 2015 22:16
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i'm still laughing at the fact that the city of 74,000 people only has 12,000 people show up to vote, which is why city council is worried about 5000 new google employees living there.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:26
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rjmccall posted:even if they are built, their tragic flaw is obvious in their design. the domes have a bunch of independent floor-modules you can move around with cranes. in what situation would it ever make more sense to rearrange modules than to just move people? this all reads like architects coming up with something without asking a civil engineer whether it is in any way a realistic or good idea.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:31
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Sniep posted:i like how they still after these years are boggled by how to get the secret sauce right like on the iphone. MAYBE IF WE HAD MORE CORES? a lot of the software design was done ground-up for a blackberry clone. at the last minute, several years into the project, they had to re-work it from an event-driven blackberry clone to a real-time touch interface it should surprise no one that the java architecture for event-driven ui on a low-power device was decidedly second-rate after clumsy adaptation to a touchscreen driven by a 500 MHz ARM and opengl i think it surprises all of us that it's still second-rate eight years later
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Feb 28, 2015 22:36
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it should surprise no one that the java architecture for event-driven ui on a low-power device was a disaster on a touchscreen with a 500 MHz ARM and opengl yeah but eight years later it's still bad on a touchscreen with like a dozen 2ghz arm cords and opengl on an nvigia tangra chipst that your wife will love
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Feb 28, 2015 22:37
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when you think "responsive UI" and "good power management" the first things that come to mind are java and linux.
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Feb 28, 2015 22:41
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Sudo Echo posted:when you think "responsive UI" and "good power management" the first things that come to mind are java and linux. this, except unironically
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Feb 28, 2015 22:48
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this, except unironically lol wtf
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Feb 28, 2015 22:53
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java was designed to fit into small spaces and run on battery powered devices. sun sold a range of JVMs optimized for low-power and ultra-low-power devices. google negotiated to license one. then they told sun to gently caress off, and decided to write their own, from scratch, to avoid paying sun a few dollars per phone. and you can see how that turned out
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Feb 28, 2015 22:56
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prefect posted:ouch; thanks for the info. i was thinking about buying an iphone, but maybe not now 
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Feb 28, 2015 23:01
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Shifty Pony posted:this all reads like architects coming up with something without asking a civil engineer whether it is in any way a realistic or good idea. facility design is what i'm learning to do right now and this whole thing sounds like someone read up on CRAFT but didn't realize that you weren't supposed to build the departments before you started rearranging them
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Feb 28, 2015 23:01
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him holy lmao get a load of this guy cam
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Feb 28, 2015 23:49
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him smythe for ik payin dividends
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Mar 1, 2015 00:38
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also this thread is a crenmob containment zone cut into it and itll spread
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Mar 1, 2015 00:38
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him chome
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Mar 1, 2015 07:33
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whack is mad?
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Mar 1, 2015 07:53
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kids: don't do whack
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Mar 1, 2015 07:54
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he caught me! im a big stupid human being who cant make a good post to save his life!
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Mar 1, 2015 07:54
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i got a pm from blackula once telling me not to disrupt his posts lol
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Mar 1, 2015 08:00
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and now ive broken the omertà by postin about it
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Mar 1, 2015 08:04
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PleasureKevin posted:as a product for consumers, yes it sucks square cash or venmo/gwallet are ok imo. venmo/gwallet each want a checking acct # to withdraw ur money but square cash just needs a debit card # so go with that imo
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Mar 1, 2015 08:31
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theadder posted:i got a pm from blackula once telling me not to disrupt his posts lol you guys can't keep breaking the fourth wall like this, it makes me think like you're not just all here posting for my amusement but instead that I am a part of this somehow
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Mar 1, 2015 08:34
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rjmccall posted:even if they are built, their tragic flaw is obvious in their design. the domes have a bunch of independent floor-modules you can move around with cranes. in what situation would it ever make more sense to rearrange modules than to just move people? the former-SGI main campus is a vertigo-inducing shitshow with terrible lighting/floorplan so they may be trying to keep some degree of flexibility for when office design fads change again in a couple years and to avoid a repeat of what theyre dealing with today rjmccall posted:the actual point of this proposal is to wow the city council with science and architecture so that they allow an exception to the height limits ... or yeah probably that Progressive JPEG fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Mar 1, 2015 08:35
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what if i told you there was a medium of currency exchange that had zero fees, was accepted everywhere, did not reveal any personal information, and is already super wide spread? it's called cash
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Mar 1, 2015 08:44
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its also a medium to end up with unmanageable amounts of change and waste a shitload of time going to atms while getting cocaine and ebola traces in your hands you keep that poo poo ill use apple pay thanks
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Mar 1, 2015 08:55
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I can't send cash via email or SMS. POPmoney works, though.
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Mar 1, 2015 09:18
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poty posted:its also a medium to end up with unmanageable amounts of change and waste a shitload of time going to atms while getting cocaine and ebola traces in your hands i have three magic words for you: "keep the change"
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seoul photocopiers running at 1000% quote:Even the camera mount protrudes out from the rear of the phone, preventing the S6 from lying flat on a table, just like an iPhone 6.
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Mar 1, 2015 19:07
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Smythe posted:he sent me a cool pm after i probed him I llol'd ( literally laughed out loud ) at the pagancow part
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Mar 1, 2015 19:08
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uncurable mlady posted:seoul photocopiers running at 1000% heh
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Mar 1, 2015 19:14
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PleasureKevin posted:I llol'd ( literally laughed out loud ) at the pagancow part me too
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More changes afoot at Google+. TechCrunch has learned, and now confirmed with Google, that David Besbris has left his role as the head of the company’s social and identity product. He has been replaced by Bradley Horowitz, a longtime VP of product for Google+. Besbris only took over Google+ less than a year ago, in April 2014, after Vic Gundotra — who had started and led Google+ since its inception — left the company. And it was only in October 2014 that Besbris, reclining in a pool of plastic bubbles (pretty ironic in retrospect), told Re/code that Google was in social and Google+ “for the long haul.” Well, Google+ may not be completely disappearing, but it does seem to be getting dismantled (as we reported it would).
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